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Gouge
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 Senses relating to cutting tools.; A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc. countable, uncountable
"The "steeple" was a little cupola, reared on the very centre of the roof, on four tall pillars of pine, that were fluted with a gouge, and loaded with mouldings."
- 2 the act of gouging wordnet
- 3 Senses relating to cutting tools.; A bookbinder's tool with a curved face, used for blind tooling or gilding. countable, uncountable
"In plate II. are design for two backs of books. The first figure, which presents an appearance of exceeding richness, is executed with one sole tool, viz. No. 10, and a small gouge for the sides of the lettering-piece."
- 4 and edge tool with a blade like a trough for cutting channels or grooves wordnet
- 5 Senses relating to cutting tools.; An incising tool that cuts blanks or forms for envelopes, gloves, etc., from leather, paper, or other materials. countable, uncountable
"Gouge. […] A shaped incising-tool used for cutting out forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, or other objects cut to a shape from fabric, leather, or paper."
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- 6 an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) wordnet
- 7 A cut or groove, as left by a gouge or something sharp. countable, uncountable
"The nail left a deep gouge in the tire."
- 8 An act of gouging. colloquial, countable, uncountable
- 9 A cheat, a fraud; an imposition. countable, slang, uncountable
- 10 An impostor. countable, slang, uncountable
- 11 Soft material lying between the wall of a vein and the solid vein of ore. countable, uncountable
"At some of the mines on the great Mother Lode, where hundreds of tons are not unfrequently thrown down at a blast, and where a wide, soft "gouge" along one wall enables the minder to keep two or three sides of the rock free, and give the powder the greatest opportunity to "lift" without waste of power, the cost of drilling and blasting per ton is so low that a reduction of one-third, even if it could be made, would not greatly affect the general count; […]"
- 12 Information. US, slang, uncountable
"As all naval aviators have learned at one time or another in their careers, “There's plenty of bad gouge out there," and it has, does, and will get the unwary fliers in trouble."
- 1 To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. transitive
"Japanese and Chinese printers used to gouge characters in wood."
- 2 force with the thumb wordnet
- 3 To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. transitive
"The company has no competition, so it tends to gouge its customers."
- 4 make a groove in wordnet
- 5 To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. intransitive, transitive
"The recorded cases in which the constituents of the joint were removed at different times, and those also in which the bones or portions of the bones were gouged away, do not by any means afford satisfactory results."
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- 6 obtain by coercion or intimidation wordnet
- 7 To use a gouge. intransitive
"Blocks are alſo pieces of wood belonging to ſhips, in which the ſhivers, or ſheaves, of pullies are placed, and wherein the running ropes go. [...] The blocks are then jambed up edgeways with wedges in a clave, and the ſheave-holes are made in this manner: the length and breadth are firſt gouged out, and holes are bored half way through the block, along the part gouged out, with an augre of the ſize of the ſheave-hole; then the ſheave-hole is gouged and bored on the oppoſite ſide in the ſame manner, ſo as to meet the oppoſite holes."
Etymology
From Middle English gouge (“chisel with concave blade; gouge”), from Old French gouge, goi (“gouge”), from Late Latin goia, gubia, gulbia (“chisel; piercer”), borrowed from Gaulish *gulbiā, from Proto-Celtic *gulbā, *gulbi, *gulbīnos (“beak, bill”). The English word is cognate with Italian gorbia, gubbia (“ferrule”), Old Breton golb, Old Irish gulba (“beak”), Portuguese goiva, Scottish Gaelic gilb (“chisel”), Spanish gubia (“chisel, gouge”), Welsh gylf (“beak; pointed instrument”), gylyf (“sickle”). The verb is derived from the noun.
From Middle English gouge (“chisel with concave blade; gouge”), from Old French gouge, goi (“gouge”), from Late Latin goia, gubia, gulbia (“chisel; piercer”), borrowed from Gaulish *gulbiā, from Proto-Celtic *gulbā, *gulbi, *gulbīnos (“beak, bill”). The English word is cognate with Italian gorbia, gubbia (“ferrule”), Old Breton golb, Old Irish gulba (“beak”), Portuguese goiva, Scottish Gaelic gilb (“chisel”), Spanish gubia (“chisel, gouge”), Welsh gylf (“beak; pointed instrument”), gylyf (“sickle”). The verb is derived from the noun.
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